Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] responsibility for " in BNC.

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1 Second , Compact involves students in setting and monitoring their own goals and hence encourages them to take responsibility for their own success or failure .
2 I should have let you take responsibility for your actions instead of trying to protect you .
3 The RSPCA want us to take responsibility for our rubbish … and take it home … out of harms way .
4 Well , obviously none of us would want to separate sex from erotica , and so er , and I think we , what we 'd like , what we wanted the leaflet to do was put , put sort of sex for , for young people er and students in particular in this case into a framework that allowed loving and resp , response of attitudes and , and eroticism , yes , and so I think what the leaflet does is , is let people take care of themselves sexually and let them take responsibility for their sexual acts .
5 The payoffs for being a victim are simple : it allows us to avoid responsibility for our lives , to wallow in self-pity rather than taking care of ourselves , and to punish others .
6 But I do say that we , the ordinary man , must either insist he takes responsibility for what he discovers , and does concern himself with the ethics of its methods and application , or accept the responsibility to ourselves , and make our own decisions about how science is used .
7 ‘ One of the first rules an executive in your salary grade has to accept , ’ he sliced her off , ‘ is that when the flak starts flying you take responsibility for what comes out of your office whether your signature 's on the work or not ! ’
8 Second , Fuchs blamed the deficit on the museum 's poor administrative structure , ‘ I did not have a system which enabled me to accept responsibility for the financial affairs of the museums ’ .
9 If colleges were experienced in validation and had developed acceptable validation procedures , the Council made Validation Procedures Agreements with them which enabled them to take responsibility for the organisation of validation for their own pilot schemes .
10 Do you take responsibility for the day-to-day running of it ?
11 Do you take responsibility for them as an active dad ?
12 Do you accept responsibility for his death ? ’
13 Do we accept responsibility for the quality of your holidays ?
14 However , to ask me to take responsibility for Scotland as well would be too much .
15 Secondly , the opening up of the sugar market was perfectly compatible with an amelioration policy designed to improve slaves ' conditions and prepare them to take responsibility for their future freedom .
16 If you have been nominated to respond to an SPR , this option enables you to accept responsibility for the SPR or to pass it on to another user .
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